A month or so back, I was doing a project on human rights. We had to illustrate one of 8 selected articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, & I chose...
Article 18:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with oth- ers and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
So this was my response, a drawing. But to be more accurate, an interactive drawing.
If you look in the mind you can choose a religion, choose a belief:
You can choose from Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism...
...Islam, Christianity & Judaism.
You can even chose from Atheism and Agnosticism. Ok they're not actually defined as religions, but you know they kinda count.
This is part 2 of a 3 part project. Over the holiday I'll be working on part 3, and part 1 is in a state of redux, so I thought I may as well put part 2 up, as it's the only bit that's "finished."
Just a bit of detail:
I just can't seem to let a project die these days. I'm going to re-do this. You see the character in the portrait is a little too stylised for the theme. So soon you'll see the same thing here again, but looking a little more generic. In a good way I think. If I'm lucky, in that future post, you'll enjoy a diptych.
It's a short film I created for a brief called 'My Eye, My Vision'. It deals with my vision of where character ideas stem from, and how they choose to manifest in your mind:
Did the boy look familiar at all?
& don't worry, it's not meant to be serious.
Despite choosing to specialise in illustration,
I do still very much love moving image.
Experimenting with some simple yet effective shots throughout the filming process
reminded me of this
FFFFEEDBACK:
My tutors said it was a very ambitious projects, as I was directing, filming and getting actors together. I got a feeling one of them wasn't too much a fan of some snippets of acting, but they were impressed on a whole... I think.
According to my friends & peers, I've come up with something cool.
But personally, I feel I missed the mark with this one, with a bunch of tweaks, and a few re-shoots, this could have been something great.
Hey, it's my first live-action film. I think I've done ok.
Oh, see what I had to put up with filming this!:
Just a thought, is it worrying that the outtakes are longer than the actual film?...
************* EDIT - The answer to that was yes, so years later for the sake of all our eyes and ears I took the videos down! No need to thank me!
You're about to read my outcome for the first illustration project of the year.
The project was called Hidden Histories.
It had to be about something real. So I went with Angle Grinder Man.
This is the story of how it all began:
Yeaabedadai!
Done.
What do you think.
It's a little sad to think, that of all the time I've been at CSM, this is the 1st comic I have ever finished. To think one day I want to call myself a graphic novelist!
I've definitely got to do more, and soon - good thing I have a plan to force myself to,
which I'll reveal another day.
You know, where there's a rise, there tends to be a fall.
So if I were you I'd be asking, "Where's the fall of AGM?"
Good question.
I wrote a script to it, but only had to time to do one of the proposed 2 comics for the final piece.
Which was more than enough of an outcome.
But I'd love to put the script into images, as I personally prefer it to the rise. What you've read is basically a summary of how AGM came to be. The fall deals with AGM in a much more personal light, reflecting on his last ever real blog post, and his disappearance after that.
I intend to do it at some point, but then again, I intend to do a lotofthings.
